Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949 ebook
by Stella Dong
Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes, and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a larger-than-life character in a fantastic novel has been added to your Cart.
Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes, and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a larger-than-life character in a fantastic novel has been added to your Cart.
Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949 Stella Dong plays tour guide to Old Shanghai, that decadent seedy mega-city born in the last years of the Manchu Empire.
Shanghai : The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949. 0786196173 (ISBN13: 9780786196173). Stella Dong plays tour guide to Old Shanghai, that decadent seedy mega-city born in the last years of the Manchu Empire. Shanghai, being an ungrateful daughter, was the center of intrigue and funding that finally toppled the last Emperor of China in Beijing.
Includes bibliographical references (p. -305) and index. Stella Dong's biography of Shanghai explains precisely why a missionary once declared, "If God lets Shanghai endure, he owes an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a. .
Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a larger-than-life character in a fantastic novel. As insightful and scholarly as it is detailed and gripping, Shanghai is a "brilliant tableau of creative energy and decadent humanity" (Seattle Times). Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling modern-day Babylon, the Shanghai that pre-dated Mao's cultural revolution was a city like no other: redolent with opium and underworld crime, booming with foreign trade, blessed with untold wealth and marred by abject squalor.
I was fascinated by Stella Dong's book "Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City. I lived in Shanghai for almost ten years prior to, during, and after the Second World War and wrote about that experience ("Strange Haven: A Jewish Childhood in Wartime Shanghai"). The book is encyclopedic about the history of Shanghai from 1842-1949, a tumultuous period including the opium war, the boxer rebellion, the two World Wars, the rise and fall of Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist movement, and the ultimate virtual surrender of the city to the communists.
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Written by. Stella Dong. Book Lust (55 items) list by NC Torres. Published 10 years, 9 months ago. View all Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949 lists. Manufacturer: HarperCollins Release date: 11 October 2001 ISBN-10 : 0060934816 ISBN-13: 9780060934811.
Enter Zip Code or city, state. Error: Please enter a valid ZIP code or city and state. Good news - You can still get free 2-day shipping, free pickup, & more. Recounts the history of Shanghai, a main point of contact between China and the outside world, and a place with great contrasts, ruled by gangsters and the birthplace of the Communist Party in China. 17,500 first printing. Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of the Decadent City 1842-1949.
Stella Dong is the author of many historical books on China, most notably Shanghai 1842-1949: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City (Harpers), Peking: Heart of the Celestial Empire (Formasia).
Stella Dong is the author of many historical books on China, most notably Shanghai 1842-1949: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City (Harpers), Peking: Heart of the Celestial Empire (Formasia) and Sun Yat-sen: Enigmatic Revolutionary (Formasia). Born in Seattle, she worked for several magazines before her first book. She is known for her perceptive articles on Chinese-American writers, and has a regular column on American-Asian cultural affairs in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post.
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Transformed from a swampland wilderness into a dazzling, modern-day Babylon, the Shanghai that predated Mao′s cultural revolution was a city like no other: redolent with opium and underworld crime, booming with foreign trade, blessed with untold wealth and marred by abject squalor.
Journalist Stella Dong captures all the exoticism, extremes, and excitement of this legendary city as if it were a larger-than-life character in a fantastic novel.